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21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, cried Mr Brymer;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boats!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silence--idiots--fools! he shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is your own doing, and now you want to run away and leave a good ship and all its valuable cargo-- ours, do you hear?--all ours--to burn. Bah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boats, quick!--the boats!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throw that fool overboard, some of you, cried Jarette, contemptuously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! The boats! cried two or three."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are all lost!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, if you do not obey, cried Jarette, speaking slowly through his teeth, and with a very marked French accent, as he did when greatly excited."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I go not to lose our great prize, for which I have fought and won. Every man now a bucket, and you four to the pump and hose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Draw back a little, whispered Mr Brymer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we get buckets, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; it is useless. There are nearly fifty of those casks of strong spirits there below, and no efforts of ours could stop that fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you will not let it burn without an effort?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall let it burn, sir, without an effort, said Mr Brymer, drawing back, and leading Mr Frewen toward the companion, I being so close that I could hear every word, which was only intended for the doctor's ears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you why, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As those casks burst, the spirit will run through the cargo in all directions, the flame will glide along the surface, and as the spirit heats, the hold will be full of inflammable gas, which will keep on exploding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Frewen, angrily;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would not stop the flashing of that spirit here and there, doctor, till, sooner or later, it reaches the blasting-powder. That must be reached, and then the ship will be rent open."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great heaven!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the fire will be extinguished then. My good sir, with a well-trained crew, working calmly, we might perhaps reach the powder and cast it overboard; but, situated as we are now, any efforts of ours would be worse than folly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then--the boat!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but don't hurry or grow excited; the vessel may burn a day or two before the final calamity comes. We have plenty of time to do our duty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I understand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't we going to try and put out the fire, Mr Brymer, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my lad; we'll leave that to Jarette and his gang. Come and help."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you there, Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, she cried eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray, pray help us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. One minute; is the door locked on the inside?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand back from the door, right to the other side of the cabin,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you they would not desert us, Lena,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Denning, you don't like me, but we are in a perilous strait. Believe me, I will do everything man can for you and your sister now. Will you trust me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dress quickly, as if for a long journey. She looked at him wonderingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said, and his voice sounded almost harsh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In five minutes or less you must both be down in the boat. Hat, cloak, waterproof, and any necessary that you think may be useful. Nothing more. You understand?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Preddle--Dumlow, I cried,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take her first, Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ship is on fire; we must not lose a moment. Pray come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be ready to help, Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make a loop, Bob, and help lower Miss Denning down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I will, my dear lad, he said, shooting his load on one of the lockers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you be skeart, but just you trust to me. That's your sort, he cried, as he passed the rope round her, and knotted it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, you'll just take a tight grip of the rope there with both hands, and trust to me, just as if I was going to give you a swing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll trust you, Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, miss; you'll be like a baby in my arms. Now, Barney, boy, lay hold of the rope. Nay, you needn't, she's light as a feather. Give way to me, my dear, just as if I was your father, and I'll lower you right enough."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Done lovely, said Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better let Neb Dumlow cast off the rope, Mr Preddle, sir. You can hand the lady into the starn arter-wards. That's your sort, sir, as he hauled up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, some gals would ha' kicked and squealed and made no end o' fuss. Want this for Mr Denning, shan't us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be--as quick--as I can, he sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no hurry, said Mr Brymer, quietly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on heaving down that there prog, Barney, whispered Bob from behind his hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't hold with running short out in a hopen boat."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you got that painter fast to the ring-bolt so that you can cast off directly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir. Hear the pumps going?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; go on stowing the stores sent down as well as you can. Mr Preddle will help you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, doctor, he said the next minute,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the explosion?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would not hurt us, said Mr Brymer, coolly, for now that Miss Denning and her brother were safe, he did not seem to mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the powder goes off it will be amidships, and strike up. We shall only hear the noise, and perhaps have a few bits of burning wood come down near. What I fear is Jarette and his party when they take to the boats. But I think we can out-sail them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then what are we going to do now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Collect everything that I think may be of use, so work away, Dale, my lad, and help me. Hampton, Blane, get another breaker of water. Take the one on the poop-deck, and lower it down over the stern."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boats, he said laconically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But no hurry, my lads. Water and stores in first. We're all right for hours yet."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said Mr Brymer at last, in answer to Mr Frewen's uneasy looks,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got all we can stow, I'm sure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then pray let us get away before it is too late,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Afraid, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--for those poor shivering people below, sir--and, well, yes, I am alarmed too, knowing that at any time the deck may be rent up beneath our feet and the vessel sink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it is unpleasant to think about, and there is the danger of those scoundrels lowering one of the boats and coming round here for stores that they have none of there. Ah, there goes one of them down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, down with you, Frewen. You next, my lads; I don't think I can remember anything else. You after the men, Dale, and I come last, as I'm captain for the time."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None too soon. Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; none too soon."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not they, my lad; they're in too much of a scare. Don't suppose they've got any room in their heads to think about anything just now. They know fast enough that the poor old ship will soon blow up, and what they want to do is to get some more prog, and then row off soon as they can."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're a-getting a whole jorum o' things, my lad, as won't be much use to 'em. I'd rather have a cask o' fresh water than one o' them boat-loads o' odds and ends."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You miserable gang of cowards!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you go up yourself?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I order you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And because you are afraid."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is, whispered Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sarve him right if the boys rowed away and left him."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Mr Dale, sir, he's gone up to fetch Mr and Miss Denning, and he can't find 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did any of you see those passengers?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're nowhere about,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How rum now, aren't it? muttered Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I do call that strange."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't either of you see them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you go into their cabin?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They must be somewhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right then, shouted a voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You go and find 'em. We're off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pull away, my lads, we've had enough of this, cried the same voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't want to be blowed to bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you to stop,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull, lads! She'll bust up directly, and suck us down. Pull!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we shall have to save him ourselves,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, cried Jarette sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can hit eleven more without reloading, for I never miss. There, go on, my lads. I don't ask you to come back."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One less to row. Why didn't you pick him up?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wretch! I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't they rise against him?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How horrible! I thought, as the cold perspiration gathered on my face--"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor old girl! she ought to have had a few more voyages before this. She'll go down directly."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette may be waiting somewhere close at hand with his two boats, till he has seen the last of the ship. We have had troubles enough; we do not want to increase them by a fresh encounter with the scoundrel."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steady, my lad, steady; nobody is going to throw you overboard."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the ship hasn't sunk,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; she still floats, said Mr Brymer, quietly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are Jarette and the men?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They rowed away to the east, replied Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we can talk aloud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, and shout if you like."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a puzzle to me that she has not gone down, Dale, said Mr Brymer, in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That explosion was enough to drive out her sides, as well as rip up her deck; and I am beginning to think that after all she may float."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But she is on fire still, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps not, my lad, he replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was an immense amount of cargo solidly stowed below, and it may be only that which is burning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you will not venture to go on board?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She may suddenly sink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She does not look now as if she would; at all events not during this calm. Yes; I am going on board, and you may come too if you like."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go with you, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, my lad, he said, laying his hand on my shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Dale, you will be chief mate of some ship, young as you are, almost before I get to be captain. But we won't waste time passing compliments. What should you say if we find that the old ship is strong enough to carry us into port?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it is impossible,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so impossible perhaps after all; but we are getting near, and we'll see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But suppose she is so near sinking that the addition of our weight proves to be enough to make her begin settling down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I should be greatly surprised if it did, he said with a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we'll be on the safe side. As soon as we mount on deck through the cabin-window, the boat shall be backed out of the way of danger, and our first task shall be to cut loose a couple of the life-buoys. Then, if the ship drags us down, we shall be sure to rise again and float."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fear, my lad. She will not sink now, unless there is a storm; perhaps not even then. Row right round, my lads,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you go first, Dale, or shall I?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Row aft about a hundred yards, my lads. It is only for form's sake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no fear of her going down, Dale, for many hours, if at all. I want to see what damage there is forward, and whether we can come aboard and attack the fire with any chance of success."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But shall we not be safer in the boat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Most decidedly not. And fancy, boy, there are three sick and wounded people, and a lady! It is our duty to study them, and besides, after all, we may save the ship."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think there is any more powder below?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed I don't, said the mate, decisively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a grain. It is all honest fire, my lad, smouldering away in the cargo, and waiting for a little encouragement in the shape of wind to burst out into an unconquerable blaze."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will not sink, Dale,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the force of the powder went upwards, as it usually does. If it had been dynamite, the explosion would have struck down, driving out the bottom, and then of course the ship would have sunk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the fire!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, the fire, he said coolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must fight that. It is dangerous, but the explosive spirit has burned out, or been destroyed; the powder has gone, and we have nothing to fear now but the slow working of our friend or enemy, whichever you make it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it may burst out furiously at any moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It may, my lad, but I hardly think it possible. Of course a great deal of the cargo is highly combustible, but things will not burn quickly without room and plenty of air. Fire shut in only smoulders, and eats its way slowly, as you see it there. Come, I think we may hail the boat, and get our friends on board."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But do you think it will be safe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Safer than leaving them in an open boat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the mast--the main-mast? Suppose the fire has eaten its way through that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it had the mast would fall; but the fire has worked forward, and, as far as I can see, the mast is untouched. Run up to the main-top, it is clear now. Have a look round, to see if you can make out the two boats with our friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not afraid that the main-mast will give way with your weight, are you?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I looked sharply round before answering, and there was the wide sea in all directions, glistening in the morning sunshine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, I said at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try again. Take a good look round, my lad. The boats look small in the distance. They can hardly have passed out of sight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's good news; but I don't want them to see that the ship is still floating, and come back again. Go up to the main-topgallant mast-head, and have a look from there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do; come down,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They do not seem to have been disposed to stop for the explosion, Dale, said Mr Brymer, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now let's hail the boat, and have our friends on board."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But do you really think it safe for them to come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you before, my lad, safer than in an open boat. My good fellow, escaping as we were last night, we were glad to do anything; but think of the sufferings of Miss Denning and our wounded in such close quarters! They must come on board while we fight the fire; and if matters get too bad, there will be the boat all ready, swinging astern, and we can take to it."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None o' them games, Mr Dale, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much, sir, growled the sailor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Dale! cried Mr Brymer, hurrying up from where he had been forward examining the hose left by the mutineers after their feeble attempt to extinguish the fire,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I said faintly, as I pressed my hands over my forehead;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose it was that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some'at queer burning below, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or the gas from the combustion,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty nigh combusted him, sir, if I hadn't got hold on his arm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it's a warning for us, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, come and pass this hose along."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better let me pump, sir, he grumbled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understands that a deal better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I set you to this, man, because of your wound. You are not fit to take your turn at the pump."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I like that, sir. It makes me mut'nous, it do. Why, you wants all the strength yonder to take spells in pumping, grumbled Dumlow;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you can pump, for goodness' sake go forward, and don't talk now, cried Mr Brymer, impatiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, Dale, is that sickness gone off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take the branch, then, and direct the stream. Right down, mind, where the glow rises. As he says, we want all our strength there, and you can serve us better here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep back so that the fumes don't overcome you, and call out if you want help."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will have to take to the buckets,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how disappointing!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say, Mr Dale, he shouted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurray! hurray!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Dale, you shouldn't, you know,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't do it on purpose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't say that, Dale, he cried back, the voice sounding very peculiar through the hissing and shrieking of the steam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am quite ready to forgive you, my dear boy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I didn't really,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Dale, don't--don't! Why, I saw you take aim at me with that thing across this dreadful gap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--can't talk--now, I shouted. Then, contradicting myself,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going to help pump?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; but what a fearful noise!--and you have made me so wet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you getting on? shouted Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose I can get by you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; don't try it, I cried excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must not stir, and there is so little room. Go back and round with Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; I daren't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fire isn't there,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not so much afraid of the fire as I am of the water, cried Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You want to squirt me again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you promise me not to squirt if I go that way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honour--bright, I yelled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't see you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm going to trust you, said Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How stupid of him to think that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see anything stupid. It was stupid of you to play tricks at such a time,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why I thought you were gone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I waited to see whether you were going to keep your word,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want any help, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steam too much for you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; all right. I'll call if I want help."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you getting on, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know; I can't see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, but I can. Capitally, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There must be a tremendous body of fire down below; far more than I thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But is there any fear of our pumping too much down and sinking the ship after all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think we should sink her by our pumping, Dale. We should get tired first, I'm afraid. Why, my good lad, I don't know whether my calculation is right, but I should say that half the water you send down there must float up again in steam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think so, sir?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure, shouted my companion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite below in my calculation. You can keep on, can't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right. I couldn't do it better. Go on; every drop's telling in extinguishing the fire, or wetting other parts of the cargo so that they will not burn. But what a fiery furnace it is! I had no idea it was so bad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That it has burned through to the ship's bottom?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; and it will not now, he shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is so much heat there that an immense body of steam must be rising, and that will help to extinguish the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I am doing some good, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good? Yes; you are winning the fight. I must get back now, and relieve Mr Preddle. I left him and the doctor pumping."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Brymer's orders, sir, as you're to hand me the nozzle, and go aft and get a refresher. Says you must be choked enough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he order me to go, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, sir. Give's hold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Talk about a fog, he cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sounds like something good being cooked, don't it? I s'pose there'll be a bit o' something to eat soon. I'm growing streaky, and could eat anything, from biscuit up to bull-beef. Well, what's the matter? he cried, as a fiercer shrieking came along with clouds of vapour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That go in the wrong place? Well, will that do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you are hard to please, and you'll have to take it now as I like to give it you, so off you go, my lad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Bob, I replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will tell me the truth. My brother has sent me to see. Are we in great danger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, I think not,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not deceiving me? she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, is not the danger very great? Come and tell John."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Dale, he said feebly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to see you. It is so hard to lie here without being able to help, and I sent Lena to get news. Tell us the whole truth. Don't keep anything back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then there is hope?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, I think so, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are mastering the fire, and it cannot burst out afresh, for the cargo not burned will be drenched with water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it may have worked its way through the ship's side, he said, with a shake of his head. Then, suddenly--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, I want you, if I break down altogether, and my sister here is left alone, to take my place, and be as it were her brother. We have both liked you from the first day we met. Will you promise this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will when it becomes necessary, I said quietly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come, I cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what I tell him, said Miss Denning eagerly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he doesn't know so well as I do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had your breakfast, Dale, my lad? cried Mr Brymer cheerily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, Miss Denning. Well, Mr Denning, we're winning the battle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you will save the ship?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I think so now, said Mr Brymer quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Denning, it is almost an insult to ask you, but if you could find time to help us a little!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can I do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not ask you, but we are all forced to go on pumping to extinguish the fire, and to a man we are getting exhausted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you want food--breakfast?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, my dear young lady; and if you could collect a few scraps together for us--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is all ready in the cabin next to the captain's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah! I might have known, cried the mate, taking Miss Denning's hand to raise it to his lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless you for all you have done for us, Miss Denning. If my little wife at home could only know everything, she would be down on her knees praying for your safety. Look here, Mr Denning, don't you be down-hearted. I can read you like a book, better than the doctor. Half your complaint is worry about your sister here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Mr Denning with a faint smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, then, you would be honest, that's all. Now don't you fidget about her, for there are on board this ship six men--I was going to say and a boy, but I can't, for that boy counts as a man in the spirit to do all he can, so I shall say seven good men and true--who will do everything they can to protect as sweet a young English lady as ever stepped. There isn't one of us, from grim-looking Neb Dumlow or brown Bob Hampton up to the doctor, who wouldn't cheerfully give his life to save her from harm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, cried Mr Denning, with the weak tears in his eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I too, said Miss Denning, in a choking voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't? cried Mr Brymer;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use talking, Dale, my lad, said Mr Brymer huskily,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's an angel for you, Dale, mumbled the mate, with his mouth full."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right kind of angel too, who can open meat-tins for hungry men, and who knows that even now it's nicer off a white cloth. I don't wonder at the doctor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about the doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never you mind. Fill your fists and come along. Eat as we go."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Brymer! At last! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it's well, skipper, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we shall save the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you eat this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no. Miss Denning has been attending to me, bless her!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amen, and a double blessing, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, keep a good heart, man, and pray for another day or two's calm. We'll do everything possible. Good-bye."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you will, Brymer. Go on, then. You will all do your best."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's look at Walters first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. You go; I can't, my lad. If I do I shall feel as if I must throw him overboard. He might have saved us from all this. Go and see him, and don't let him starve; though I suppose Mr Frewen's feeding him now on physic."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're precious hot and feverish, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better have the door open too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shipbuilders are awful fools to make such little round windows,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't you better drink some water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cowardly, treacherous brute!--the bullet ought to have killed you, or we should have let you drown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hah!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have another glass?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, I thought, as I laid him back again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wound hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure to, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll be ever so much worse yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, I said gruffly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is the ship still burning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I s'pose so, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wasn't out when I came away. Arn't you glad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, it was all your doing. Feel proud, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm weak, helpless, and in misery. I'm full of repentance too, now. Don't, don't, pray, cast my sins in my face."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to be proud, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can lie there and think that through your blackguards the ship has been blown up, and is now burning, and would burn to the water's edge if we couldn't stop it. The captain looks as if he were dying; you are nearly killed; you've nearly killed poor Mr Denning, who came this voyage for the benefit of his health; you have had Miss Denning insulted and exposed to no end of dangers; poor old Neb Dumlow has a shot in him; and we've been treated more like dogs than anything else; while now your beautiful friends have turned upon you, and left you to be burned in the ship they have set on fire, for aught they care. Yes; you ought to be proud of your work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, don't faint,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, I said roughly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd better fetch the doctor to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What for? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will only try and save my life, when it would be better for me to die out of the way. I want to die. How can I face people at home again? No, no, don't fetch him. It's all over. There is no hope for me now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I help you, Walters?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Miss Denning, I think you can, I said very clumsily, I know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walters knows what a brute he has been, and of course he is horribly sorry, and bad now, and keeps on speaking about there being no hope for him, and wanting to die. I can't talk to him, because I don't seem to be able to do anything but pitch into him--I mean with words--but you can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor fellow! she said gently; and she laid her hand upon his hot brow;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, of course he is, I cried hurriedly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's done wrong, and he's sorry for it, and I'm sure I'll forgive him if you will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That means you will, I cried hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I say, you speak to him, and make him feel that talking about dying's no good. He can't show how sorry he is if he does, can he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then tell him he's to get well as soon as he can, and play the man now and help us to save the ship, and you, and all of us; and I say, I really must go and help now, and--oh, Miss Denning, don't sit down there; that's my sandwich."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a donkey I have made of myself! I cried, mentally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought I had said stupid enough things to poor old Walters, and now I've spoken such nonsense to her that she'll always look upon me as a regular booby. Yes, that she will."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Bob, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt, clever-shakes, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, lay hold of the nozzle and do it then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I beg your pardon, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it was Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you did, he said, as I took a step or two forward to where I could dimly see the mate manipulating the copper tube, and directing the water here and there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catch hold: I'll go and pump, and send some one to have some food."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over, I thought;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on tight, Mr Dale, sir; we're coming by this side, so as to speak you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's with you, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "T'other two, sir; Barney and Neb. There's Mr Trout-and-Salmon Preddle at one handle, and the doctor at t'other, with Mr Brymer to relieve while we're off dooty to go and 'vestigate the wittling department. That's so, eh, lads?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so, said Barney;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No fear of that, Barney, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems as if it won't be put out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it'll have to, sir, 'fore we've done with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is your wound, Dumlow? I said, loudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurt you much?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't shout, Mr Dale, sir. I'm a-goin' out to braxfass with a lady, and I don't want her to hear as I've had a hole punched in me, or she'll be thinking about it all the time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But does it hurt you much?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tidy, sir. Sometimes it's better; sometimes it's worse. 'Tarn't a nat'ral way o' taking blue pill, and consekently it don't agree with you. But don't you worry about that, nor me neither: I arn't killed yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand fast, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to shove you down into that hole. Looks just like my old mother's washus used to on heavy days. She was a laundress out at Starch Green, she was, and--hff!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a bit of a nip from that there bullet, that's all, sir. That's better now I'm by. 'Tis a bit steamy, though, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horrible, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course it ain't; but I put it to you, as a young gent who's got a head of his own, and got it screwed on right, as you've showed us more'n once; can I go and get a bite and sup, and can the doctor see to my leg and go on pumping, and all at the same time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not, but as soon as you've had some breakfast, do have it done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, sir, all right; and thankye heartily for what you say. Why, dear lad, you make as much fuss over me, and my damaged post, as if it was your uncle, or your father, or somebody else. It's very good of you, Mr Dale, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you stopping to hargy anything, Neb, old man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, mate, I arn't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, come on. Yer can't 'spect the young lady to stand all day a-holding the coffee-pot up in the air, while you're a-talking out all the breath in your chest. Do send him on, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right; coming,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going to have some breakfast? I shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it Mr Preddle's turn too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he squeaked, from over the other side;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going too, but it's very hard work passing along here. Dale, my dear boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've had a look in at my place forward, and quite half the fish are dead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very sorry, I shouted; and then in a lower voice to Mr Frewen--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do have a look at poor Walters, sir, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he's very bad, Dale, mentally as well as bodily, I hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, sir; he's horribly sorry now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry?--Hah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dumlow's in a lot of pain too, sir, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should be so glad if you'd see to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor fellow! Yes, I know his wound's worse than he'll own to. He shall have it dressed as soon as I get back. I wanted to do it before, but he was as obstinate as a mule."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coming, Mr Frewen?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Dale, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, sir; it's as bad as ever,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, my lad; not half. The mist is not so dense overhead, and the hissing and shrieking of the steam is nothing like so loud. We can talk to one another without shouting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, squeaked Mr Preddle from the other side,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three cheers! he shouted;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Blane take the branch now, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Dale, my lad, you couldn't have stood to your water-gun better if you had been a man."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fear of our sinking, Dale,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can do nothing, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, my lad, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no objection if you wish to provide me with a bit of practice--go on, and I will do my best."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatcher mean, sir, with yer bit o' practice?--pouring of physic into me as if I was a cask?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I meant taking off your leg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taking off my leg! cried Dumlow, with so comical a look of disgust on his countenance that I was obliged to laugh;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to take off your leg, my man, and I can stop up the holes as you call it; but you persist in using it, and if you do, the consequences will possibly be that the wounds will mortify, and the leg get into such a state that I shall have to amputate it to save your life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear this, Mr Dale!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That won't do for me. Timber-toes goes with the Ryle Navy and pensions. They won't do in the marchant sarvice. All right, doctor; I'm game to do just as you tell me, only let me get about a bit. Couldn't you put my leg in a sling?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your leg isn't your arm, Neb,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, who said it were? I knows the diffrens 'tween a fore and a hind flipper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, that will do, my man, said the doctor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your wound is not a bad one, but in this hot climate it would soon be if neglected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, Mr Dale, I won't do what the doctor don't want. Ketch me getting rid of a leg like a lobster does his claw. But I say, sir; I did think, you know, just then, as I might have a hankychy round my neck and hang my leg in it."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't think we can manage her, sir, to-night. To-morrow perhaps I might rig up tackle, and we could get her on deck. She's too big for them davits. But why not let her hang on behind, as the weather's fine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And suppose those scoundrels return, sir, what then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you may well say what then, sir, he grumbled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hadn't thought o' that. Don't think they will come, do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is possible. They left in a scare, but if they see the ship still floating they may come back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'd better get a couple o' pigs o' ballast ready to heave over, and knock holes in the bottom in case they do come, for we can't get her hysted to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you are right,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will take the first watch myself, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All of you go and get some rest so as to relieve me."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Mr Brymer, our cabin-door is open, and my brother and I have heard every word."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dear young lady, said the mate pleasantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you had heard better news."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the best you could give us, she said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But my brother sends me to say that he has had a long sleep, and that if he is helped to a chair on the upper deck with a night-glass, he could keep the watch himself, and easily give the alarm if it were necessary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he is not fit to leave alone, Miss Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would not be alone, Mr Frewen, she replied gently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should share his watch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And do you think, my dear child, cried Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? she said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have all risked your lives to save us. It is the least we can do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, came in Mr Denning's sharp voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is quite right, Brymer, said a fresh debater in a faint voice, as no less a person than the captain joined in the discussion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are all worn-out. We sick folk have sharp ears, and will keep them well opened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I really hardly know what to say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire!--fire!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The galley--the galley!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, Dumlow! You here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir. Practysing up. I got it now, and go ahead to-morrow morning. Stove bothered me a bit at first, but I can work her, and there'll be hot water and coffee for braxfast in the morning, and soup and taters for dinner. Cooking's easy enough when you knows how."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you may laugh, all on you, I don't keer. This won't hurt my leg, will it, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; you can go on with that, replied Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Toe be sure, sir. I've often seen the cook sitting down to peel the taters and stir the soup."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, let that fire out now, and get some rest, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You startled us all."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A boat?--the mutineers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Miss Denning, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fire has broken out again!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy, there! man the pumps. She's going it again."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready there?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; go on there! shouted Mr Brymer from the other side of the deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who has the branch?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me if I miss any of the worst places, Dale,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me take it a bit now,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought not to have lain down, he said, in tones full of self-reproach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might have known that the fire would break out again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we couldn't have had a better watch kept, Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right, my lad, he replied warmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought to have thought of that too. Go and tell Mr and Miss Denning that the danger is at an end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale, Miss Denning. I've come to tell you that the fire is mastered again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How long had it been burning when you whistled?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a minute, said Miss Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were watching the setting of one of the stars, when all at once there was a dull report somewhere in the hold, and in an instant there was a flash, and great volumes of fire and smoke began to roll up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it was only lit-up steam,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there is no more danger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I think not--at present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you say at present?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't say anything to frighten her, Dale, said Mr Denning;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed no, John dear; I am quite calm. Tell us, Alison. It is better to know the worst."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only meant, I said hastily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mean that; because no one could have watched better than you did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Starboard watch, ahoy! cried Mr Brymer, cheerily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you, Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you for keeping watch so well. Any idea what time it is?--we hadn't been asleep long, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be close upon morning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Morning? Impossible! What do you say, Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it must be very near day, she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is many hours since you left us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And gone like that! cried the mate in astonishment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ahoy there, Mr Frewen, Preddle, he shouted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My watch is not going, replied Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, cried Mr Preddle, in his highly-pitched voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almost a pity, isn't it, said the mate, merrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look yonder-- there--right astern."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is that? The moon about to rise?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say sun, and you will be right, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and lie down if you like, gentlemen; but look yonder too; there is a fleck of orange high up. For my part, I propose a good breakfast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, you cannot be right, said Mr Frewen, from the main-deck;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I must speak as the medical man, and give my patient orders. You ought both to have some sleep now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wonderful!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Dale, my lad, what's the matter? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you see a whale?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boat-ho! Two on 'em astarn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay! roared Bob Hampton in a voice of thunder,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's right, he said calmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are our boats and men. They must have been somewhere near, and seen the light rising up from the ship, and come back to see what it means."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then all is lost!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, replied Mr Brymer, coolly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can't board us, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I'll do that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a small keg of powder in the cable-tier, get that in the saloon too; and in the locker in my cabin you'll find some big cartridges and shot. Everything is there. Do you think you can load and prime the cannon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never loaded a big one, said Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is precisely the same, sir. Have it ready, and a poker in the galley red-hot. Bah! we have no fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wrong, sir. Stove's going, and the kettle nearly on the bile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo! cried the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have not taken us yet. Off with you, Mr Preddle. Now, Hampton, we must either get that boat on board, or save all we can, and then she must be stove in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which would be a pity, sir, said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's heavy, and we're few, but I think if you'll help get out all you can from her, water-breakers and sech, I can slew round the yard, and rig up tackle as 'll do the job."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right! Up with you! Now, Blane, and you, Dale, have the boat round here to the gangway, and down into her. Mr Frewen, you and I will lower tackle, and have all up we can to lighten her."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, shouted Mr Brymer,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, up with you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are they close here, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't talk; no. Ready there at the capstan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haul away then."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a good shot, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I can fire that if it becomes necessary,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How? I asked,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he whispered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't it blow the priming away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; it will fire the piece instantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope he will not have to try,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I can't help, he moaned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I could."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, to take the ship?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know better than that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't mean it, I said quite hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, old chap; we're going to whop them after all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And one ought to forgive everybody,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, here you are, Dale. Take this gun, and mind, you are the reserve. Be ready to go and help any one who is most pressed. There must be no nonsense now. Shoot down without mercy the first scoundrel who reaches the deck. If it is Jarette, aim at his head or breast; if it is one of the others, let him have it in the legs."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a rum way of forgiving one's enemies, I said to myself;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over, I thought to myself;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy, there! Open that gangway, he shouted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Throw up your oars there,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Row, you idiots, row!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop there, you in the boats, cried Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! don't be a fool, Brymer, he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pull away, my lads; they won't fire. Hi! there, the rest of you, don't take any notice of the mate. We saw you were on fire and in danger. We saw the fire and smoke in the night, and came to save you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the same way as you deserted the ship when you thought she would sink,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pull, my lads, and get aboard, cried Jarette, so that the men in the other boat could hear;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull, you beasts! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You jerked me off my feet. You, there, he roared to the men in the second boat,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have her. It's too far to row."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now! shouted Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready? Off!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cowards! snarled Jarette, savagely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you want to stop afloat in open boats and starve? Now then, once more. Up with you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sheer off, he roared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's winning, boys, shouted Jarette, triumphantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, all of you follow."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, hi! Mr Dale, you're in command now, shouted Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barney, doctor, Neb, come and help here."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, let me come, cried Dumlow, limping up with his capstan-bar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me room, and I'll clear the lot down."
}
]
|
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